Route 66 Theatre Company is pleased to announce the line-up for its 6th annual Mile Markers Benefit Concert: REVOLUTION: SONGS OF PROTEST AND EMPOWERMENT on Friday, March 10, 2017 at Mayne Stage, 1328 W. Morse Ave. in Chicago. Tickets for MILE MARKERS are currently available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2879219.

Door open at 7 pm for a cash bar, light bites, silent auction and raffle followed by a night filled with music from the '60s through today. Mile Markers is the cornerstone of Route 66 Theatre Company’s fundraising efforts and directly supports the 2017 season.

Michael Mahler (Concept and Music Direction) is the Jeff Award-winning composer/lyricist of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, October Sky, The Man who Murdered Sherlock Holmes, Hero, Wonderland: Alice's Rock & Roll Adventure, Something in the Game, and others. He contributed additional lyrics to the new Broadway production of Miss Saigon and created the original English libretto for Boublil and Schönberg's La Revolution Francaise. Michael is a Jeff-Nominated actor most recently seen as Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors at American Blues, and he plays guitar in his band The Lincoln Squares. www.michaelmahler.com

Tammy Mader (Director) occasionally puts her musical theatre foot into the waters of rock & roll, mostly directing Route 66 Mile Marker concerts, which include Joshua Tree, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Jagged Little Pill (+redux), The Nightmare Before Christmas and Purple Rain. Other rock & roll endeavors: directed and choreographed Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story at Drury Lane Theatres in Oakbrook and Water Tower Place; directed and choreographed the musical Hairspray; belted out some ‘60s girl group ditties in Shout!; roller-skated in spandex & leather while singing Olivia Newton John hits in Xanadu; collected enough tip money during Pump Boys And Dinettes to buy beer for the company for the entire run; played Ernie the Keebler Elf in a rock-opera called Leo On Ice for the annual Leo Burnett Breakfast at the Chicago Theatre; played a ukulele in a band called Ethyl & The Mermen.

Route 66 Theatre Company

Route 66 Theatre Company introduces, develops, produces, and exports new work for the stage. The road begins with our new play development process and reaches west, where our World and Chicago Premiere shows are given an advocate for further regional productions along the road less traveled from Chicago to Los Angeles. Since the company’s founding, Route 66 has produced 10 productions, 2 in two cities including an Off-Broadway premiere, been nominated for ten Jeff Awards and won two. Route 66 is now a resident company of The Den Theatre. www.route66theatre.org

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